“About mid morning today we were able to confirm that the web site ‘MySpace-dot-com’ allowed several students to post threatening messages on it’s web site, messages threatening Warren High School,” Pascual Gonzales of the Northside School District said. “This message said two boys were planning to show up at school with guns.”
Yep, some idiots posted on myspace they we’re gonna show up at school with guns. And what happened?
“The vast majority of students either didn’t come to school, or came to school and went home out of fear.”
Cool, so they care about their lives, and didn’t show up instead of just reporting it when they saw it. Great.
Gonzales said Northside officials will also hold MySpace-dot-com “accountable.”"It just seems to me that if you put up a public web site, and you allow students, teeangers, minors to post their thoughts and ideas, and not monitor it in an adult manner, you are asking for trouble,” Gonzales said. “This particular web site has been a pain for all Bexar County schools for a long time now, and it just seems that the owners of MySpace-dot-com should be held accountable.”
Yes, if you start a public website, because people are going to start a private one! Oh and monitor it. We don’t care that you have better things to do like fix bugs (ok ok this is myspace, I know thats not happening), add features, and help users. We want you to check every single message posted!
Myspace already allows users to report inappropiate content via their website. If anyone reported this and they didn’t notify the school, fine, they have some fault, although I don’t know if they are legally required to notify them, since many times people say things on the internet just to be tough. But as crappy as myspace is, they can not be expected to monitor every single thing going on on the website, their users should maybe grow some brains and report what doesn’t seem right.
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